Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1875 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

(From Record, of 22d instant.) Oats are pretty dull sdle at 26 cents. J r- \ ■■ f A “coed in ’e ’ead,” is very fashionable just now. The foundation for the M. E. parsonage is completed. The festive flies have shut up shop and laid aside for wihter repairs. The ranks of the “bachelors clique” on Ohio (street, are being rapidly thinned out. We heard of several couple who will slip the matrimonial noose over their heads, shortly. 3 A young stranger, weighing about ten pounds, made liis appearance at the residence of W. B. Hendryx last Friday. J. Iv. Shaw’s pacing horse, “Red Buck,” made his mile in 2:41, Wednesday. This is a valuable horse that will yet rank among the best pacers. A fight occurred in front of Trigg’s barber shop Saturday evening, between Field Lester and Charley McCulley. We did not learn the particulars; The Remington teachers .report schools progressing finely, with an enrollment of 210 pupils, and more coming in. Schools increasingeach day in interest as well as in numbers. «

Dr. Patton showed us a pint whiskey bottle, npt long since, with a live mouse nicely ensconced therein. His mouseship had crawled in after a piece of the staff of life, probably turned a summersault, and failed to find the hole through which he entered. He was mastieating canary seed, and seemed perfectly resigned to his tate. Last Saturday was the twentieth wedding anniversary of G. B. Chappell, and the tenth anniversary of Merril Mead. Their friendVnad not forgotten them, and in the evening surprised them by gathering at their respective residences, and presenting them with many useful presents. They rather got the joke on Mr. Chappell, by securing his assistance in the preliminary arrangements for his own benefit, he thinking all the time that he was preparing to surprise Mr. Mead. He worked manfully, and enjoyed the surprise as much as anybody.

About a month ago a gentleman from Wolcott, by tjie name of Bombay, called at the postoffice in this place, and presented iwo postoffice orders to Postmaster Clark, one for SSO and the other for $7.90. In paying them Mr. Clark made a mistake in the count, and says he paid Bombay $107.90—550 more than the orders called for. lie soon afterwards discovered his mistake and followed Bombay to Rensselaer and politely informed him of the error, at the same time requesting him to refund the SSO. Bombay refused to do anything of the kind, claiming that he did not know how much was given him. He was taken with a capias , and making no defence, a judgment was rendered in favor of Mr. Clark for SSO. Tuesday evening 11. H. Downing, of Rensselaer, hitched a livery team, belonging tQ Duvall’s stable in Rensselaer, to our fence, “over in the country,” and while he was in the house, some pusillanimous poltroon threw the Tobe off of the horse 3, untied them and let them go. When “Deacon” started to go home he discovered that he would have t.o go without his team and buggy, so concluded to wait until the dawn and track them up. Next morning he hired ahorse at Patton Bros’, and started after them, and found them at a farm house about 8 miles from tjbrn place, on the road leading to Denton’s grove. The farmer who took them up said they were wandering down < the road without a driver, but with halter straps tied up. The lnw-livgd skunk who would stoop so low as to do an unprincipled act of the above kind,deserves tobe peppered with shot until he is obliged to stand up and take his meals till Gabriel bloitrs his trumpet. Some fellows never possessed any principal, and they never try tb find oui how a man feels when be is a man.

Several persons around town are afflicted with sore eyes. leaning over the gate, cooing and kissing—“ Ain’t I tweet, now, dear?” “Es you is,” —the pale moon skipped under a cloudy they clinched for another slobber, and we passed by with watering mouth and aching heart, and’ with the convictionffhat there is a good deal of sweetness wasted on the frosty air, even in the little city of Remington. Wednesday night several fellows who have been working on the brick building, and the contractor for the brick w T ork, concluded to “jump” this place without liquidating their indebtedness for board, hire, etc., and wijh that purpose in view they walked to Goodland. John Burger, W. 11. Shelton and G. B. Chappell followed them with a capias , and then made them divide their spoils. These three gentlemen got their pay, but we learn that there are several persons here who still mourn their absence. Brick-laying don’t appear to be a very profitable business in this section of the country. If such dead beats were made to pay in advance for boarding, etc., they would have more encouragement to be honest men.